CATTLELivestockUS dollars per hundredweight (100 lb), live weight
Live cattle
Live cattle price 218.980 US dollars per hundredweight (100 lb), live weightUSD / cwt
up 0.45% vs 8 Octvs 8 OctDailyFri 9 Oct
Compared with the previous published day, Thu 8 Oct: 218.000 USD / cwt.
What moves it
Herd sizes, feed costs, drought, beef demand
Source and freshness
- Data source
- USDA AMS Livestock Mandatory Reporting DataMartOfficial sourceVisit source(opens in a new tab)
- Series
- USDA 5-area cash cattle, daily weighted average
- Source time
- Fri 9 Oct
- Last updated
- Fetched by Staple
- Freshness
- Up to date for its scheduleStale after 5 US business days without a new value.
- How often it updates
- DailyLive with a paid data key
- Unit
- US dollars per hundredweight (100 lb), live weight
Source: USDA AMS Livestock Mandatory Reporting
Notes on this number
About the data
- What this number is: 5-area daily weighted average direct slaughter cattle, negotiated, live FOB (LM_CT100).
- Daily US 5-area cash price from USDA with no key (some days have no trades). Live CME futures need Pyth Pro beta feeds or paid API Ninjas. Cents per lb and USD per cwt are numerically equal.
What a data key would add
- Pyth NetworkPaid keyLive price: CME live cattle futures, front contract (Pyth beta feed)Setting name PYTH_API_KEY, added by the owner on the server
- API Ninjas Commodity Price APIPaid keyDaily price on the free evaluation plan, live on paid plans: CME live cattle futuresSetting name API_NINJAS_KEY, added by the owner on the server
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